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Dream Teams are occasionally formed in real life, but fiction is full of them, since the constraints of time, space, and personality can be relaxed. What if SherlockHolmes, Ellery Queen, NeroWolfe, Lew Archer and LordPeterWimsey teamed up to solve crime? Answer: detective Dream Team. What if Superman, Batman and Spiderman teamed up to save the world? Answer: superhero Dream Team. EltonJohn and Billy Joel have toured together, and are about to do so again?rock piano Dream Team.

* In ''Changes'', [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] pulls together a DreamTeam to storm the Red Court stronghold in Chichen Itza, consisting of himself, Thomas, [[spoiler:Murphy,Leanansidhe, Susan, Martin, Sanya, Molly, and Mouse]]. Also, half-way through the battle, [[spoiler:Ebenezzar and the Gray Council]] show up in a true BigDamnHeroes fashion. That pretty much includes every badass good guy/girl in the series and then some.

* In ''Changes'', [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] pulls together a DreamTeam to storm the Red Court stronghold in Chichen Itza: himself, [[spoiler:Cross Murphy, Thomas, Leanansidhe, Susan, Martin, Sanya, Molly, and Mouse]]. Also, half-way through the battle, [[spoiler:Ebenezzar and the Gray Council]] show up in a true BigDamnHeroes fashion. That pretty much includes every badass good guy/girl in the series and then some.

* The manga ''Karakuridôji Ultimo'', a joint project written by ''ShamanKing'' creator Hiroyuki Takei, and frickin' StanLee.

** How about DCComics? It could be called ''JusticeLeague''
** Or, get this... What if '''both''' the DC & Marvel heroes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLA_Avengers teamed up?!]]

* The team on ''Threshold'', though it was actually called the Red Team.

* [[TheMightyBoosh Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt]] in [[NathanBarley a production]] written by [[CharlieBrooker]]? Sign me up!

* Hrolf Kralki's Saga has him form a team of heroes to replace his earlier team of berserkers.

Dream Teams create a dramatic problem in that it is by definition difficult to find a worthy opponent for them. Typical opponents include nature and inherently difficult tasks?it is much easier, for example, to commit a crime than to solve one. Occasionally, an opposing Dream Team or BigBad may be invoked; this is a classic approach for superhero Dream Teams, since by definition a best-ever supervillain is the complement of a best-ever superhero. Additionally, Dream Teams can be their own worst enemy, with egos and infighting over approaches limiting their potential effectiveness. There is often a teamwork {{Aesop}} here.

Compare MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, and UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny, which is a dream battle.

** In the same vein as the League, the team of {{Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}, {{HP Lovecraft}}, Charles Fort and Harry Houdini from ''{{Necronauts}}''

* The Louisianna Gator-Boys from ''Blues Brothers 2000''. Whatever you may think of the rest of the movie, ''that'' scene, at least, was cool - putting together a band of the greatest R&B musicians alive, just to counter the Blues Brothers Band's [[ThePowerOfRock Power of Blues]]. The roster includes: B.B. King, EricClapton, Bo Diddley, Dr. John, Jeff Baxter and several other successful musicians - a true Supergroup.

* All versions of ''JasonAndTheArgonauts''.

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* Konomi Takeshi has stated that the soon to be published continuation of {{The Prince Of Tennis}} will deal with the formation of a "dream team" chosen from amont the hundred or so best junior tennis players in Japan.
* In recent chapters in OnePiece we had [[spoiler:Luffy teaming up with Buggy, Mr 3, and Mr 2 Bon Clay]], which was plain awesome, but now we have another team. The thought of [[spoiler:[[VillainousCrossdresser Iva-san]], [[EdwardScissorhands Inazumi]], [[TheBigGuy Jinbei]], [[MagnificentBastard ''Crocodile'']], and Luffy]] teaming up to [[spoiler:save Ace from execution]] is definitely squee-material.
** Also, Luffy's crew consists of people whose ambitions are largely to become the best at what they do. Though they're typically the best among their current peers when Luffy recruits them.
* The manga ''Karakuridôji Ultimo'', a joint project written by ''ShamanKing'' creator Hiroyuki Takei, and frickin' StanLee.
* Averted in AirMaster. The light-headed protagonist is portraying a generic Mook on a theme park, fighting some Sentai heroes. She beats the shit out of them without a thought, just by reflex. To avoid stopping the show and making sad their public, every member of the filming crew comes to the stage wearing costumes of an army of Kamen Rider-like old heroes. The dads of the children start cheering their youth idols. Airmaster then proceeds to kick every ass that gets too close to her.
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* Named for the first U.S. basketball team to have professional players in the Olympics, when the International Olympic Committee admitted it was hypocritical to allow professional players from other countries.
* O.J. Simpson's Johnny Cochran-led defense team in his 1995 murder trial is often referred to as "The Dream Team".
* Gene Kranz's White Team, both in real life and in the movie {{Apollo 13}}.
* The Luftwaffe also unintentionally created one in real life: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdverband_44 The Jagdverband 44]], ''Die Galland Zirkus.'' Just the top five scorers in the squadron had altogether more than a thousand confirmed kills, and that was a unit ''made'' of combat aces.
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*** Beyond the actual team the world of the League is one where all of fiction and reality coexist. So every badass character you can think of could very well be working together in some capacity.
** Or, get this... What if '''both''' the [[JLA-Avengers DC & Marvel heroes teamed up]]?!
* ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Each League member either has super powers of some sort or is a BadAssNormal.
* In the same vein as League, the team of {{Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}, {{HP Lovecraft}}, Charles Fort and Harry Houdini from
''{{Necronauts}}''

* Deconstructed twice in ''{{Watchmen}}''. In "Under the Hood" (a book-withen-a-book written by the first Nite Owl chronicleing his time as a superhero) Nite Owl said that "it takes an extreme personality to put on a costume and fight crime and the chance of eight such personalities getting along is a million to one." Later when Captain Metropolis (a member of the last dream team, "The Minutemen") tries to form another Dream Team, "The Crimebusters", Rorschach complains that "a group this size seems more like a publicity exercise, somehow it's too big and unwieldy."

* In the same vein as League, the team of {{Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}, {{HP Lovecraft}}, Charles Fort and Harry Houdini from ''{{Necronauts}}''

** Additionally, the [[PowerRangersInSpace sixth season]] had two episodes where the previous [[MightyMorphingPowerRangers Black]] & [[PowerRangersTurbo Blue]] Rangers returned.

** The [[PowerRangersWildForce tenth season]] had an episode where all of the previous Red Rangers (Except one) & a Red-colored SixthRanger teamed up with the then-current Red Ranger. The [[PowerRangersOperationOverdrive fifteenth season]] featured a two-part episode where Rangers from the [[PowerRangersMysticForce fourteenth]], [[PowerRangersSPD thirteenth]], [[PowerRangersDinoThunder twelfth]], [[[[PowerRangersNinjaStorm eleventh]] and [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers second]] seasons returned.

** The [[PowerRangersWildForce tenth season]] had an episode where all of the previous Red Rangers (Except one) & a Red-colored SixthRanger teamed up with the then-current Red Ranger. The [[PowerRangersOperationOverdrive fifteenth season]] featured a two-part episode where Rangers from the [[[[PowerRangersMysticForce fourteenth]], [[PowerRangersSPD thirteenth], [[PowerRangersDinoThunder twelfth]], [[[[PowerRangersNinjaStorm eleventh]] and [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers second]] seasons returned.

* The entire premise of ''TurtlesForever'' is based upon this - The [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 80's Turtles]] team up with the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 00's Turtles]] [[spoiler:and later, the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtles from the Mirage comic book]] ''and'' Krang & the 80's Shredder]] to stop [[spoiler:00's Shredder from destroying the TMNT multiverse]].

* The entire premise of ''TurtlesForever'' is based upon this - The [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 80's Turtles]] team up with the [[[[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 00's Turtles]] [[spoiler:and later, the ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtles from the Mirage comic book]] ''and'' Krang & the 80's Shredder]] to stop [[spoiler:00's Shredder from destroying the TMNT multiverse]].

* How about DCComics? It could be called ''JusticeLeague''

** Beyond the actual team the world of the League is one where all of fiction and reality coexist. So every badass character you can think of could very well be working together in some capacity.

* And how many times have we had those ''PowerRangers'' crossovers (SuperSentai has a movie each year for the current and previous season to cross over and team up!)?

Dream Teams are occasionally formed in real life, but fiction is full of them, since the constraints of time, space, and personality can be relaxed. What if SherlockHolmes, ElleryQueen, NeroWolfe, LewArcher and LordPeterWimsey teamed up to solve crime? Answer: detective Dream Team. What if Superman, Batman and Spiderman teamed up to save the world? Answer: superhero Dream Team. EltonJohn and BillyJoel have toured together, and are about to do so again?rock piano Dream Team.

* ''{{Joe 90}}'' uses a variation of this; he can use his glasses to [[PowersAsPrograms download]] the brain patterns of the experts who would be this trope. Allowing him to act as this trope despite being one person.